I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and started to use Twitter. I had avoided it because I couldn't understand why anyone would want to share the mundane details of their life with others, but am now beginning to see how it can be useful, and also to enjoy using it.
If you too are using Twitter, why not follow me (my username is @mocost), and engage me in an interesting conversation, share a link, or even tell me - if you really feel that you must - what you had for breakfast? Below is a mosaic of 40 people who are following me already.
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I'll be at Science Online Together for the next few days. I missed last year so I'm really looking forward to getting back into the Science Online swing of things.
Twitter is about to ruin itself.
On Twitter, things can be fast and unpredictable. Like yesterday. I was having an interesting discussion with @jason_pontin about the changing role of quoting sourses in Old vs.
It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix:
In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily.
Wait -- Carl Zimmer is following you too? That dawg! You didn't put your address here, but mine's @anneminard. See you among the tweeple!
The "follow me" link goes to my twitter feed, but I've just added my username/ address to the post anyway.